I like this photo upload thing. The picture above is from the side-car race where the passengers are clearly keen to get to know the drivers much better just before the corner.
Apparently they were doing roughly 120mph when I took that photo, just before a 90 degree turn (the curb of which you can see on the left of the picture.)
Nutters.
So yesterday was the first 'proper' race day. Two races of 3 or 4 laps around the island. The first was Formula 1 bikes (average speed on the course - 130mph. Can you imagine?) and then side-cars. We elected to watch from a corner of the course near a pub and sat on the grass, drank beer and watched the lunatics scream past. It can be a bit disconcerting when someone screws up the line of the corner, locks their wheels, and you realise that the run-off area on the track is, well, you.
After that excitement, we went for a walk on the cliff (being careful not to step on the seagull chicks, of which there were many. All camoflaged to blend in with the rocks to escape predators but not the accidental foot of Newly.
And then I was very boring. Some of the other people staying here elected to make a further indentation in the bar and partake of the cinema room. I, on the other, went to bed and slept solidly for 10 hours.
Lovely.
So, the next photo. Should it be:
a) Motorbikes doing silly things
b) Adorable fluffy cliff-top chicks
c) Something else entirely
d) Enough of this photo nonsense!
